Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

Is the value add for Notepad not that it is litterally the most bare bones graphical text editor available in Windows?

Microsoft has already positioned VS Code as its code editor and OneNote as its notetaking app. Why should Notepad compete with these offerings?

Hasn’t .md always been supported?

I don’t see why people are complaining. If you use notepad for txt files, nothing changes.

Windows 11 LTSC still has the old school notepad.exe (and calc.exe) instead of this UWP abomination. Also: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-20...

noooooo

FUCK MICROSOFT.

Thanks, I hate it. How do I disable it? Oh, I can't. Thanks, I hate it more.

Uh oh... https://www.laws-of-software.com/laws/zawinski/

Can Microsoft please stop? If I need Copilot and Markdown Support I use VS Code or any other software that supports it.

I recently used Windows Sandbox and was surprised that it does not have notepad. And why? Because it's a Store App now and that's unsupported inside the Windows Sandbox.

Notepad is supposed to be dumb, not Microsoft!

Yeah no.

Stopped using notepad when they added co-pilot. Stop shoving AI down our throats.

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TIL Windows still has Notepad.

Somebody should probably tell Microsoft we’ve all moved on to better things like Notepad++ (even when their update supply chain gets compromised).